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Fort Washington is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. It borders the Potomac River , situated 20 miles south of downtown Washington, D.C. [ 3 ] [ discuss ] As of the 2020 census , it had a population of 24,261. [ 4 ]
Fort Washington, located near the community of Fort Washington, Maryland, was for many decades the only defensive fort protecting Washington, D.C. The original fort, overlooking the Potomac River , was completed in 1809, and was begun as Fort Warburton , but renamed in 1808. [ 4 ]
The port was founded on this site in 1706 by the provincial Maryland General Assembly, which designated it one of the official Port of Entry for the tobacco trade with the Kingdom of England. In 1729–1730, Baltimore was established by Act of Assembly to the northwest at "The Basin" of the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco.
National Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located along the Potomac River near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and just south of Washington, D.C. It originated as a 300-acre (1.2 km 2) multi-use waterfront development. Per the 2020 census, the population was 5,509. [3]
North American container ports. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
In the U.S. state of Maryland, it runs 81 miles (130 km) from the Washington, D.C. line to the Pennsylvania state line near the town of Rising Sun. US 1 is paralleled by several major highways as it passes through Maryland, including Interstate 95 (I-95), the Baltimore–Washington Parkway (B–W Parkway), US 29, and US 301. Thus, US 1 has lost ...
MD 224 begins at an intersection with MD 6 (Port Tobacco Road) just north of the latter highway's western terminus at the Potomac River in Riverside. MD 224 heads west as two-lane undivided Riverside Road through densely forested southwestern Charles County, paralleling the left bank of the Potomac River about 1 mile (1.6 km) inland.
Sideling Hill Road Cut, a man-made mountain pass on Interstate 68/U.S. Route 40 near Hancock, Maryland An enlargeable map of Maryland's 23 counties and one independent city Western Maryland , also known as the Maryland panhandle or Mountain Maryland , [ 1 ] is the portion of the U.S. state of Maryland that typically consists of Frederick ...